Lower East Side
Clayton Patterson in His Lower East Side Archive
Clayton Patterson, the Canadian-born folk historian and photographer, sits surrounded by decades of collected artifacts in his Lower East Side studio on Essex Street.
Contrast on the East River
A superyacht sits moored along the Manhattan waterfront as seen from Brooklyn across the East River, its gleaming white superstructure and navy hull set against the brick towers of Lower East Side housing complexes — an unfiltered study in contrasts along one of the world's most storied waterfronts.